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#1 I went to Submarine School, New London, where I underwent physical and psychological tests to determine my aptitude for submarines. I was certain I had failed. The tests were far above the average for the Navy.
#2 The submarine escape-training tank was similar to the rescue bell. It could rescue eight people at a time. The equipment used in the tank was similar to...
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Get the Summary of Sanjay Gupta's World War C in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Gupta argues that we need to prepare for a new era where pandemics will be more frequent, and possibly even more deadly. As the doctor who's been holding America's hand through the crisis with compassion, clarity, and well-earned wisdom, he gives you the unvarnished story behind the pandemic, including...
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#1 The weekend of 12 - 14 June 1914 was a busy one at Konopischt, the hunting lodge and favorite home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Here, he could indulge his passion for field sports and escape the stultifying conventions of the Habsburg court in Vienna.
#2 The Concert of Europe was an order that was established in 1815 to prevent major war on the continent for...
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#1 The American airmen were briefed on the mission to attack the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory in Bremen, Germany. The factory was the leading producer of the Luftwaffe's Focke-Wulf 190, the best fighter plane in the German Air Force.
#2 The air armada grew as the three other bomber groups assigned to Mission Number 52 slipped into position. The first sign of the...
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#1 The first World War was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. It was unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been broken at any point during the five weeks of crisis that preceded the first clash of arms, had prudence or common goodwill found a voice.
#2 There are many ceremonial monuments in French and British communities that commemorate...
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#1 The Great War of 1914-18 was a world war, and it was not the first. European powers had been fighting each other all over the globe for the previous 300 years. It began as a purely European conflict, but its course was so terrible and its consequences so catastrophic because of a combination of military technology and the culture of the peoples who fought it.
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#1 The war in the Pacific cost the army 57,137 lives, and the Eighth Air Force lost more than 26,000 airmen. The end date for counting casualties was December 31, 1946, to account for those who died of lingering injuries.
#2 The United States suffered only 68 civilian deaths at Pearl Harbor, compared to the hundreds of thousands killed in Russia, China, Germany, Poland,...
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#1 On January 3, 1942, an assembly of top army officers was flying in to meet with their naval counterparts, with whom they rarely agreed on anything. The meeting was to discuss the invasion of New Guinea, which lay just eleven hundred miles to the southwest.
#2 In 1940, the Imperial Army had promoted Horii to major general and assigned him command of the South...
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